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139 Mich. 232

Lester v. Addison

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided February 28, 1905

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1905-02-28

Joseph; Yaple, J. Trover by Bernard H. Lester and another against William R. Addison. There was judgment for defendant on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiffs bring error.

Affirmed · Decided 1905-02-28

Hooker, J.

¶1On July 5, 1901, execution was issued on a judgment obtained by Ederheimer, Stein & Oo. against the plaintiffs. On July 5, 1901, this execution was levied by Ammon Hahn, deputy sheriff under the defendant, upon a stock of goods owned by the plaintiffs, and on July 10th they were excluded from possession. On July 17th the inventory and appraisement were completed, and plaintiffs were told to be on hand that afternoon to care for exemptions. They came at the designated time and began to take out exemptions, when the defendant announced that he had a chattel mortgage upon all the goods, and that he would not permit exemptions to be removed from the store, whereupon no further attempt to select them was made. Hahn set aside goods alleged to amount to $510 for exemptions, and then sold the stock to the execution creditors for $25, subject to the exemptions and mort*233gage. An hour or so later the defendant sold all of the goods to Muncey at chattel mortgage sale, leaving a deficiency upon the mortgage. An action of trover was brought against the sheriff for the exemptions, and at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence a verdict was directed for the defendant.

¶2Upon the plaintiffs’ own showing, their exemptions were not sold on execution, and were sold on the foreclosure of the mortgage. There was no unlawful conversion by the defendant. It is unnecessary to discuss other points.

¶3No error is found, and the judgment is affirmed.

Carpenter, Blair, Montgomery, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.
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